FOUNTAINS IN PLAY.

Timaru Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 6063, 24 September 1894, Page 4

FOUNTAINS IN PLAY.

Who doesn't enjoy looking at a fonntain m play ? The bright water leaps into the air as though it were a living, oonsctous thing, Then at the summit of its aroh it is shattered into tpray by the wind, or wafted to and fro like the skirts of a dancing girl. And all the while the roar of its rush and tbe tinkling melody of its fall fill the air. This is water having a good time— water m high spirits. What makfs it jump, sing, and laugh m that fashion 1 Wait a bit. If you pi*"', wo will have the explanation later on. Perhaps you know already } perhaps not. It isn't so easy to know things from the bottom. Under date of March 16th, 1892, a ledv writes that for twenty years she always felt low spirited Now what is meant by ' spirits ' m this sense it a oondition of the mind m respect of our being cheerful, happy, enjoying our surroundings, taking delight m all sorts of minor matter;, and, m a word, making the most ot life ourselves and helping others to make the most of it. Well, then, it is both a glorious and a profitable thing to be always m good spirits j X wish I oouli be myself. But I can't; anyhow I'm not. Neither is anybody. Yet why not P Wbal makes our hearts sink down like plummet, and then rite like a cork P Before we answer let as read the rett of tho letter. The writer says » 'For twenty years I have suffered from liver complaint and indigestion. I was constantly tired, weak, and languid. My skin was a tallow oolour, and I had great paia at tho baok and shoulders. " My appttltq was poor, and I had a bad taste m the mouth, and much pain and weight at the chest after fating. I was also frequently sick, throwing up a rour. frothy fluid. I took different kind" of tnedieioe, but none of them gavo mo re; er, *od I got weaker and weaker. "In Maroh, 1834, 1 beotme so bad that 1 called a doctor, who attended me off and on for twelve months. He gave me medicines but I. grew no better, as nothing he prescribed seemed to r*aih my oom plaint. About tbit time I heard of Mother Seigel's Byrop, and commenced taking it. In less than a mouth all my pain and distress ooased, and I have since been m good health. I kept a bottle of the Syrup m the house as a family medioine and by taking an occasional dos 6 have needed no doctor, 1 I rray mention that my aunt, who lives at West Wjoombe, Buoks, was sffl oted with indigestion and dyspepsia. She states that m her opinion Mother Seigel's Syrup has been the means of saving her life. You are at liberty to osb tbis statement as you map nee fit. Yours truly, (Signed) Mrs Harriett Cutler, Barton H use, 33, Kenmure Boad, Hackney London. No philosopher has yet been able to s»y what is the exaofc relation of the mind to the body. Th's much, however, experience constantly assures ua of » that it is very intimate, and that the oovditiuu of the mental faculties depends npon that of the b:dy. As birds sing when the son shines, and are dumb m the dark, so the spirits and mental powart rite and express themselves when we are m health, and are dull and torpid when tbe body it under the weight of pain and disease. And to know that ii to kaow ell we require to aot upon. Everything, money, influence, and every form of success depend* so largely upon health that by universal consent we don't except cod service from those who are ill. And illnefii, nine limes m ten, means pre> cicely wbat Mrs Cntler suffered from such a long and weary psriod — indigestion and dyßpeptia— the ailment curod (when the doctors are dune with their fruitless ex* perimentß) by Mother Setgel's Curative Sjrup. Tbe fountain! play only when the water is foroed powerfully through their pipes by gravity or by machinery. So the spirits are free and elastic only when tbe organs within us aot without hindrance or obstruction.